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How Healthy is Your Body?

May 16, 2012 – 7:33 pm | 9 Comments

By Michelle Coleman
Your peak body that is. For Victorians, this is the Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV).
Is it really ‘the voice of Victorian Jewry’? Does it truly represent 60 organisations and 65,000 Jews? Is …

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Pesach and ‘genocide’

April 4, 2010 – 5:19 pm | 21 Comments

By Keren Tuch
I look forward to Pesach every year (I might swallow my words when the day eventually comes for me to host a seder). Aside from kneidlach, charoset and walnut pate (liver …

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With an Outstretched Hand

February 11, 2010 – 10:34 am | 30 Comments

By Keren Tuch
The first Australian Jewish international volunteer program has now been launched and completed, thanks to Jewish Aid and AUJS in conjunction with Tevel B’Tzedek – an Israeli NGO working in Nepal. It involved …

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Jewish Film Festival report: ‘For My Father’

November 24, 2009 – 6:17 pm | One Comment

By Keren Tuch
[Seen a good/bad movie at the Jewish Film Festival? Send us your kvetch/kvell and we'll post it to the intertubes!]
It’s that time of year again, where I surrender my active lifestyle for sitting …

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Hope for the Homeless

November 10, 2009 – 7:10 pm | 4 Comments

By Keren Tuch
Problems these days need creative solutions.  If young Jews in the Diaspora are assimilating, let’s send them on a free, ten day tour of Israel to encourage Zionism and procreation.  If Palestinians and …

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A Story We Know Only Too Well

October 28, 2009 – 12:19 pm | 19 Comments

By Keren Tuch
As I sat sipping chai in a tea shop in the Indian town of McCleod Ganj, home to the Tibetan government in exile, I contemplated how it came to be that I could …

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